Twilight belongs sadly not to me I am just borrowing it a bit.
This story is rated M because of the language and the lemons.
Don't read it if you are under 18.
The dragon of my hearth
All of the castle was buzzing with the new gossip.
The young female squire that out of the blue and so unexpectedly had been accepted to dragonprogram was indeed the rider of king Eward.
Isabela was not dazzled by the "honor" of being the kings rider. He was SO arrogant…and perfect…and handsome she thought…but mostly arrogant!
The king had his own problems. He was beginning to have two major suspicions about his young rider. He felt the gods was at play and that they had specifically put her in his path and he couldn't decide if he should be them eternally grateful or curse them for condemning him to such a female like her.
It wasn't the first time, that Isabela had forgotten to close the gate, and it would not be the last.
She had the tendency to daydream and working on a farm and daydreaming, somehow wasn't always the best mix.
It wasn't even the first time she chased after a pig, but it was the first time where she had chased the bloody pig for half a mile and not even one getting close to caching it yet.
She lifted up her skirts to better be able to jump over the forest bed.
She was never going to leave the gates open ever again, Isabela promised herself.
Isabela had always been a practical girl who had a positive take on life.
So, she just thanked her lucky stars that it was only one pig and not the whole pigsty she let escape because of her silliness.
Her father had left for town and she had, as soon as he was out of sight, taken his old sword to practice with.
She knew that he would be furious if he found out, and in her eagerness to get hold of the sword she hadn't even realized that she had left the gat open until the black and white pig was right in front of her.
Her fascination with swords had begun when her father wanted her to be able to protect herself if the farm was attacked.
Things like that didn't happen often.
They lived far from the boarder but sometimes you heard of attacks from lonely nomads and enemy spies.
So Isabela's father had learned her simple defence so she would have a chance to get away, but no more than that.
He didn't want her to perfect her skills, but Isabella dreamed of swords, weaponry and fight practice all day long. Even her sleep was filled of sword fight.
She knew of cause that it wasn't the right thing for a woman to dream about.
She woman should be dreaming of a home with a good fireplace and of a nice and kind husband.
MALES was never on Isabela's mind and she had no time for them, but right now that stupid pig was and she better catch it soon or her father would find out.
If he did, her punishment would definitely be severe. The thought of the punishment got her to speed up.
"Got you. You...you PIG!"
The animal fought her but she wasn't letting go of it.
While she was walking back to the humble farmhouse a huge shadow came over her head.
Isabela look startled to the sky above her.
"What the ...?"
She grasps something coming flying near her.
what was that…? It was a ...it was a…
"Dragoooonnnn" screamed Isabela as loud as she could.
Run Isabela, run, she thought.
She dropped the pig, lifted automatically her dress up to the knees and then she ran for her life.
Dragons weren't known to eat humans...not often at least but she didn't want to take the chance.
She didn't actually know any who had seen one and had only heard about them in old folktales but she ran screaming just the same.
Isabela didn't look behind her but she could hear the tearing of flesh and bone crunching. The pig decently wasn't any more.
Now she just hoped, she would get away in time and hide in the house.
The dust stirred up while she ran like a small tornado over the courtyard.
She dropped her dress down over her bare legs so her hands were free to grab her father's sword while running into the house.
Silence!
Everything was silent and the only thing Isabela could hear was her beating heart and her short of breath.
Then, the pigs began to scream.
Isabela looked up and out of the window she was sitting under.
Isabela could see the dragon was now standing in the field next to farm and had its snout down in the pigsty while eating one of her father's best pigs.
If it ate them all they would starve next winter, she coldly thought to herself.
When it began eating one more that's when Isabela felt she began to get mad.
Her heartbeat changed, her grip on her father's sword got tighter while her mind was filled with thousands of thought all at one time.
I don't want to be married off to a random man just to be able to survive the winter. That oversized DOG wasn't going to force that fate on her.
She took a strong grip around the sword, got up and ran out of the house right I front of the big beast, screaming from the top of her lungs.
"STOP, .. you filthy animal or I will." " I will cut of your tongue!"
Maybe this was stupid but sometimes you could scare of a bear even though it could easily kill you and Isabela wasn't a coward.
She was the kind of person who was ready to die for her believes.
And right now this woman believed with all of her heart that she wasn't meant to be the doormat of one of the townsmen who didn't always treat their womenfolk' right.
The beast never stopped chewing.
But it did look up and stare at the woman in front of it.
They called him The Ever Knowing, The Strong One, The Beauty and many more words like those.
But never had he ever experienced being called filthy animal.
It wasn't he who was a mammal and it definitely wasn't him who was filthy.
She was the one in peasant rags.
Dirty peasant rags he might ad and holding a slow old rusted sword from what he could see.
And he could see quite well.
Even for a dragon he had exceptional good eyesight. Envied in all of the lands in fact, he thought to himself.
Humans. They were so primitive.
But this one was quite funny or brave...no it was more likely that it was mentally retarded.
They had a strange sentiment of raising their young ones. Often they kept even those his race wouldn't have aloud out of the dragon egg.
"I am not marrying this winter so you better stop eating right now."
The dragon actually stopped the chewing and started to make a strange sound.
What was it doing? It was rolling around like the oversized dog she had compared it to earlier.
Now all of its legs and paws was in the air.
Was it? Was it laughing at her? Was that big fat animal really laughing at her?
The big problem with Isabela was that she has a horrible temper and right now the only thing she did was seeing red. She stomped over to the over large animal and kicked it's snout.
"Did you bloody hell hear me?" "I am not marrying."
"I am going to be a female fighter maybe even a knight one day and you aren't condemning me to stay here milking cows, to being beaten randomly and stocking socks," she said.
"I am going to do great things. I will I will swear allegiance to the first knight I meet."
"DO YOU HEAR ME? I swear it to you. I will one day serve a great king."
There was no reaction from the dragon and frustrated Isabela screamed even louder, "ohh why am I talking to you. You don't even understand a word of what I am saying."
The dragon stopped laughing, rolled over.
It looked at her and then it sent a cloud of breathed at her.
Isabela suddenly felt a sharp pain on her upper thorax.
She frighten opened her shirt and looked down.
There was a branding in her skin. It looked something from a dragon's claw.
The dragon moved its head few inches from Isabela's head and looked her straight in the eyes.
She then heard the most wonderful voice. It was strong, beautiful and magic at the same time.
"I Eward, the dragon king of the east kingdom hereby accept your oath."
"You are here by my squire and will serve me until our death," Eward looked down at the young female.
"Come closer child. You now belong to no man. Now you belong to me."
Isabella look puzzled while she was thinking, Can't you keep your mouth shut? and then her world turned black.
Eward look amused at the female. She fainted. Mentally retarded… Definitely retarded, Eward the all-knowing thought to himself.
"So, what am I going to do with a retarded squire and Human at that?" he said looking over at the pigs like they would have the answer.
He then grabbed the girl and the red dragon took off to the skies.